Sentences with phrase «hotel only talks»

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Not only is the billionaire investor sequestered (albeit in a gilded hotel), but his assets are completely frozen, according to a source familiar with talks about the sale of the Plaza.

Up until this point, we have only talked about American Express» airline transfer partners, but you'll also have access to booking hotels by making use of their hotel transfer partners.

Not only did they pull off a 2 - day festival of their own, but they took over an entire hotel that had everyone in the desert talking.

Frits Van Paasschen, president and CEO of Starwood, talks about hotel branding and how different hotel brands are not only created for different people, but for the same person on different occasions.

Only a two minute walk from The May Fair hotel, this statue called «Allies» was sculpted by Lawrence Holofcener and depicts Franklin D. Roosevelt sitting on a bench talking to Winston Churchill.

It's possible to walk between the two hotels, but only if you travel ultra-light (I'm talking a backpack and maybe another small bag).

Thursday, May 11, 18:00 p.m. Artist Talk with Christopher Bedford, Katy Siegel, Okwui Enwezor & Mark Bradford (by invitation only) Monaco Hotel & Grand Canal, Vallaresso Room; Piazza San Marco, 1332, 30124 Venice Mark Bradford and curator Okwui Enwezor participate in a conversation with Christopher Bedford on inclusive art history, moderated by Katy Siegel.

Glancing at my watch, I went to the Hotel Americano, where Kasmin's guests were only just finishing the appetizer course of a seated dinner that filled the dining room with shining eyes, smart talk, and good hair.

Yet if Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño has his way, that nesting area could soon be covered with luxury housing, hotels and golf courses.I'm talking about the beautiful Northeast Ecologico Corridor's pristine beaches, wetlands and dry coastal forest that lie adjacent to El Yunque National Forest, the Service's only tropical rainforest.

At a recent TEDxEast gathering in New York City at the Standard Hotel, I had a chance find out exactly what he means by his concept that pleasure is the only intrinsic good for going green.On April 12, 2011, TEDxEast hosted an event that showcased the work of graduate students that are designing a space for the TED Talks in New York.

Now, with a REIT buying up one of the world's premier hotel chains, the REIT industry is talking — only half jokingly — about taking over Corporate America.

Coming up this year in Vegas July 17 - 19, attendees will not only get in their CEUs, but they're in for a one - of - a-kind experience at the Wynn Hotel to see the bleeding edge in technology for multifamily, as well as hear from today's leaders in multifamily (and single family) talk about practical case studies you can apply to your properties today.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.